John Milton: His Life and Times, Religious and Political Opinions: With an Appendix, Containing Animadversions Upon Dr. Johnson's Life of Milton, Etc., Etc |
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... Truth is a specimen : — In his " Areopagitica , " published 1644 , he says : " Truth , indeed , came once into the world with her Divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look upon ; but when he ascended , and his ...
... Truth is a specimen : — In his " Areopagitica , " published 1644 , he says : " Truth , indeed , came once into the world with her Divine Master , and was a perfect shape , most glorious to look upon ; but when he ascended , and his ...
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... truth and righteousness , the writer , with much respect , dedicates it to the rising generation in Britain ; earnestly praying they may prove themselves a superior race to their most distinguished progenitors , whether of genuine ...
... truth and righteousness , the writer , with much respect , dedicates it to the rising generation in Britain ; earnestly praying they may prove themselves a superior race to their most distinguished progenitors , whether of genuine ...
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... truth , under the Pope's eye , when any thought fit to attack him ; and notwithstanding his danger , he returned safely to his friends at Florence . Toland remarks , in connexion with the above statement : " I forgot all this while to ...
... truth , under the Pope's eye , when any thought fit to attack him ; and notwithstanding his danger , he returned safely to his friends at Florence . Toland remarks , in connexion with the above statement : " I forgot all this while to ...
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... truth , " even when fallen to the earth , and trampled beneath the feet of contemp- tuous men , could sustain : which the votaries of high church , with their half papistical dogmas , flitting in the sun of courtly prosperity , could no ...
... truth , " even when fallen to the earth , and trampled beneath the feet of contemp- tuous men , could sustain : which the votaries of high church , with their half papistical dogmas , flitting in the sun of courtly prosperity , could no ...
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... truth , how deficient is it in charity ! How different from those truly orthodox Fathers and Pastors of our Church , who maintained a brotherly temper with scrupulous Protestants , after the Uniformity Act had made their religion what ...
... truth , how deficient is it in charity ! How different from those truly orthodox Fathers and Pastors of our Church , who maintained a brotherly temper with scrupulous Protestants , after the Uniformity Act had made their religion what ...
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Page 140 - Purification in the old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind: Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Page 225 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Page 270 - Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened, but it is also a sign of regeneration or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive baptism rightly are grafted into the Church ; the promises of the forgiveness of sin, and of our adoption to be the sons of God by the Holy Ghost, are visibly signed and sealed; faith is confirmed, and grace increased by virtue of prayer unto God. The baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained in the Church, as most agreeable...
Page 227 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note: thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of...
Page 130 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward. What supports me, dost thou ask ? The conscience, Friend, to have lost them overplied In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which...
Page 80 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 223 - I modestly but freely told him ; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, " Thou hast said much here of Paradise Lost, but what hast thou to say of Paradise Found?
Page 271 - God's Word, or of the Sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our Queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himself; that is, that they should rule all estates and degrees committed to their charge by God, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Temporal, and restrain with the civil sword the stubborn and evil-doers.
Page 228 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 227 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...